Austin Craven
Picking a market as a new Real Estate Investor
Hello Bigger Pockets!This is my first post on Bigger Pockets and I was looking to introduce myself. I am an aspiring Real Estate Investor who is looking to purchase a Multi-Family property to House Hack as a first tim...
Billy Smith
Harsh housing forecast for 2020
Home sales will drop, the housing shortage could become the worst in U.S. history, and home values will shrink in some cities. That’s the 2020 forecast from realtor.com, which holds one of the largest databases of hou...
Account Closed
Americans Are Ditching These Five States In Record Numbers
Apparently surging violent crime, massive tax hikes and insolvent public pensions are bad for attracting new residents...who knew? On the other hand, 364 days of sunshine per year, minimal crime, brand new infrastru...
Sean Kollee
inner city duplex part 1-4
OK, Im going to run through a project here in its painful entirety - start to finish. I will figure out if I can post here efficiently so it is easy to follow along, text, images etc. I have all the material on my we...
Jesse Aizenstat
ADU Appraisal: Income-based, or....
I live in a really expensive market, in Santa Barbara, CA. Buying a small 2/1 home starts at around 800k. Taking advantage of California's new ADU law, I decided to buy one of these small homes and permit an ADU. (A v...
Julie Marquez
Life Used to be Simple, Now I have Dozens of Accounts & LLCs
I know I'm not doing this right, and could use some help/guidance/suggestions.Back in the day when I had just a couple of rentals, I could do all my personal finance and budgeting using mint.com and google sheets spre...
David Zeek
Should I take my money out of the stock market and invest in RE?
I have approx 20k in the stock market and am just starting out in RE investing. Historically, the stock market can give a 7% return per year. I think a cash on cash return of 10-13% is typical for real estate investor...
Swetha Ramaiah
Rookie investor looking for Out of state investing and Mentorship
Hi all, I reside in Bay Area, CA with a full time job in tech and been 2 months since I started reading and breathing BP podcasts/books on real estate. I did some research on out of state markets and some practice dea...
Jorge Vazquez
Trying for 100% back BRRRR is a bad strategy!
The goal of pulling out all of the money is a little unrealistic right away, puts a lot of pressure on you and your team. This is especially the case when you are trying to do volume and want to build a big portfolio ...
Shiloh Lundahl
Haters Gonna Hate on Gurus
I have seen so many post from people here on BP that are anti-guru. Most of those anti-guru posts, however, are written by either new or investors, or investors with only a few properties. Rarely do I see really succ...